Warzone 2 crossplay lets you progress across multiple platforms so you don’t have to run around levelling weapons twice or rebuilding your best loadouts (opens in new tab). It also means there are a lot more people to matchmake with, which is pretty great when you’re playing with a hundred and up others in Battle Royale.

If you’re just stepping into Al-Mazrah for the first time, you might want to know how Warzone 2 contracts (opens in new tab) work, how to make money (opens in new tab) so you can buy your loadout, or where to find a black site key (opens in new tab) to unlock a weapon blueprint. That said, here’s how Call of Duty: Warzone 2 crossplay works, and whether it’s possible to disable it if you don’t want to play with other platforms. 

How does Warzone 2 crossplay work?



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What is it? The 30th edition of the monolith football management sim that loves to eat your time.
Expect to pay £45/$60
Developer Sports Interactive
Publisher SEGA
Reviewed on Windows 10, Ryzen 5 3600, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce3060 Ti; and 2021 Macbook Pro, Apple M1 Chip, 16GB RAM
Multiplayer? Yes
Link Official site (opens in new tab)

Playing Football Manager makes me a better and more knowledgeable football fan. I don’t get to know the names and trajectories of upcoming wonderkids anywhere else, and it makes me sound cultured when I can tell my mates about a promising new player from the Austrian league. There’s a big wide world out there, outside of the Premier League, full of talent that’s ripe for the picking. 

In Football Manager 2023 that’s never been truer, and if you’re a fan of playing with virtual spreadsheets and trying to take your tiny hometown football club to the Champions League, then there’s nothing better.

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I have spent 18 years trying to do just that. Football Manager 2023’s ultra-realism allows me to sign off from my work emails at 5 pm and into my fantasy emails at 6 pm. An army of researchers work to make the player database as true to life as possible, so learning the game directly transfers into real-world football knowledge, in a way that no other sports simulator does. And, like all the other iterations that have come before, I am totally hooked.



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Cyber Monday laptop deals

The Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals may be your last chance to bag a mobile bargain before Christmas this year. We’ve already seen a bunch of Black Friday gaming laptops (opens in new tab) with stellar discounts and don’t think for a second they’ll all have dried up by the time we get around to Cyber Monday.

Retailers will often hold back stock of sales items for another push around Cyber Monday, and with a whole new generation of gaming laptops ready to launch in the new year, I expect there’ll be plenty of still relevant current-gen hardware ready to go on sale.



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Riot has temporarily disabled Harbor, Valorant’s newest hero, in competitive queues after it came to light that his ultimate ability was causing dramatic lag spikes in some matches. It turns out that Harbor’s ultimate—called Reckoning—is just too much for servers to handle in some spots: The enormous visual effect it triggers can make servers slow to a crawl, as showcased in this YouTube short (opens in new tab).

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Although Harbor has been frozen out of the competitive queue for now, he’s still available in less serious modes. Players in Valorant’s deathmatch and quick play modes (as well as custom games) should watch out and brace for lag the very second a Harbor player looks like they’re gearing up to do something gorgeous.



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Even if they’ve already bought it.

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In the run up to the full release of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight (opens in new tab), Blizzard is thinking about all those millions of lapsed WoW accounts. You know the kind. That guy in the office who once had a hardcore raiding obsession but says he’s fine now, eyes darting side-to-side. Come back, says Blizzard, the water is lovely. 

This weekend all players with inactive World of Warcraft accounts get full access to the game and their old characters without the usual subscription. They’ll be able to access all expansions including Shadowlands, and play the Tempest Unleashed pre-launch content for Dragonflight (which launches on November 28).



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Overwatch 2 has a serious support shortage right now. The role is proving rather unpopular, with queue times substantially shorter for those brave enough to tackle babysitting two diving DPS and a tank that’s somehow halfway across the other side of the map. I’ve been queueing flex almost exclusively, getting a role that isn’t support once every 20 games or so if I’m lucky. Overwatch 2 has made me hate playing support (opens in new tab), partly fuelled by role fatigue and also thanks to it becoming even more thankless than the first Overwatch.

Blizzard has long been aware of problems surrounding the support role (opens in new tab). But with queue times suffering massively in Overwatch 2 thanks to the discrepancy, the developer seems to finally be taking note. In a developer blog (opens in new tab) from executive producer Jared Neuss, he acknowledged that the team needs to make support a more desirable choice. 



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A new driver for Intel’s troubled Arc gaming graphics cards has been released with claimed performance boosts of up to eight percent. (opens in new tab) The driver also fixes a number of known game-specific glitches, details further bugs for future rectification and addresses problems with Intel Arc Control software.

Intel cites eight games that benefit from improved performance, with Dirt 5 heading the list with that eight percent boost. Intel says that figure is delivered running at 1440p and Ultra settings.



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The Embracer Group’s second quarter interim report (opens in new tab) has been a real barnburner for old Gearbox. Not only has the studio been handed oversight of Saints Row developer Volition (opens in new tab), but the report also quietly announced that Gearbox has gone and bought up the Risk of Rain series too.

In a statement posted to Twitter (opens in new tab), Gearbox said that, “After years of publishing work on Risk of Rain 2, we have developed a deep love and respect for the IP,” and that it would endeavour to “bring you world-class content” and ensure “a bright future for this genre-leading franchise”. 



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With Overwatch 2 (opens in new tab) pivoting to free-to-play, it’s shaken up a lot of what long-time fans have been used to. One of those is the way new hero goodies are earned. Loot boxes stuffed with random voice lines, sprays and skins are gone, with battle passes where everybody gets the same thing becoming the new normal. But the new reward system hasn’t proved the most popular, and it’s a problem Blizzard is aware of.

In a developer blog (opens in new tab), new executive producer Jared Neuss addressed the poor reception of how the game currently handles rewards and its sense of progression since its “big shift” to free-to-play. “I could say a lot here, but I think a good place to start is saying that we aren’t completely satisfied with how everything feels right now,” Neuss said. “There’s a lot we like about it—knocking out a bunch of daily/weekly challenges or getting something new for a hero you love can feel great! But we also recognise that today’s experience has opportunity for improvement that we need to focus on.”



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